Datacentre construction is accelerating as tech companies race to meet the insatiable AI demand for computing power.
CIVICUS Lens
Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has won Peru's presidential runoff, narrowly defeating leftist Roberto Sánchez to become the country's ninth president in a decade.
Tunisia's President Kais Saied has turned the country's criminal justice system into a weapon of political control, jailing civil society staff, human rights defenders, journalists and political opponents for the crime of criticising him.
Five new non-permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council have recently been chosen.
Colombia's 21 June presidential runoff will have far-reaching consequences.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has won re-election on a promise to pivot towards the European Union and reset the country's regional relations following the end of the country's long conflict with Azerbaijan.
A UK court's conviction of two Chinese spies who tracked Hong Kong exiles shows how far China is prepared to go to suppress criticism beyond its borders.
The defeat of Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sent a clear warning to autocrats who govern through skewed but still competitive elections that a unified, credible opposition can oust them.
The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution endorsing last year's International Court of Justice advisory opinion, which found that states have a legal duty to prevent climate harm.
On 27 May, the US Treasury reimposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, after an appeals court suspended a federal ruling that had briefly lifted them.
